smithville 5/11 and 5/12

[champ202]

i love working nights i get off at 600am and on the water by 630 fished smithivlle on monday(5/11) and they came up from saturday caught on my fish in 3ft or less and only fished up camp branch side and caught a fish off almost ever stump or tree smallest one i cleaned was 13 and had one that went 15 blue/white and red/chat/ and just a plain red jig did the trick and off the water by 1100

tuesday (5/12)got on the water at 630 and rn back up camp again fished sum new spots and well its 830 am and im home and posting had my limit in 20 min this moring 13 and 14... im throwing a three jigs and there about 4" apart from each other and casting to each stump and reeling very slow i made 3 cast to the same stump and each time i caught 3 so 9 fish in 3 cast not bad soi got my limit and off the water by 800 and now time to get a good days rest will be back there everyday this week and ill post if there is any change when they shut the water off

[WantinCrappie]

Sounds like really rough conditions and hard work to me. Be careful out there. Don't want you getting yourseld hurt.

Nice job.

[Joedog]

D@#$ Brian...you suck!:D

Seriously, though...good job.


Wishin' I were fishin'!!

[keeferfish]

Nine 13 to 14 inchers in 3 casts and a limit in 20 min? No shorts?
Smithville Missouri?

WOW!!! Great Job!

[KCMO CRAPPIESLAYER]

congrat's! sound's like a heck of a day!

[Jigging15]

Sounds like fun times. I love the night shift also. Keeferfish welcome to the site from Truman lake.

[keeferfish]

Sounds like fun times. I love the night shift also. Keeferfish welcome to the site from Truman lake.

Thanks! At Truman last Fri. and Sat. Caught a few but very tough with the high water and pulling it so fast you could watch junk float by.

[Joedog]

Welcome to the board, keeferfish

[MOfishmgr]

Sampled crappie again today at Smithville. Champ is right. If you're not fishing stumps or lay downs, you're missing crappie. Lots of good fish, 10 to 13 inches this year. I measured one today at 14.9"! The females are just moving in so the next week is the time to get after them. They aren't in big groups yet, so run and gun to get your limit.

Good Luck.

Jake Allman
Fisheries Mgmt. Biologist.

[got crappie]

Hard fishing later in day. Windy fish for a while only had 5 keepers today limited out yesterday with my boy. everything 10 to 13 1/2. nice crappie this year.